Susan Wood: You must realise now that from the Prime
Minister's perspective you'd be pretty toxic. He'll be
wanting to keep away from you to distance himself. Surely
he will be doing that won’t he, and you'll find yourself
out in the cold?

Cameron Slater: “It’s of no
concern to me. Prime Ministers come, Prime Ministers go.
You know in my lifetime I've met and dealt with almost every
Prime Minister from Robert Muldoon till the present day.
Long after John Key has disappeared from the political scene
I'll still be involved.”

“I'd say that I
probably get more and more vicious information out of the
left wing side of New Zealand politics, and there's quite a
few Nats that simply won’t pick up the phone with me.
It's almost like they're too scared to deal with me, so you
know I have to work hard to get the sources and the
information that I do. So it's certainly not loaded in
favour of National, but I'm not going to let anyone die
wondering which side of the political spectrum I'm on, and
at least I'm honest about that.”

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